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Webster 1913 Edition


Coss

Coss

(kŏs)
,
Noun.
[Cf. Pers.
kōs
a road measure of about two miles; or Skr.
krōça
.]
A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles.
Whitworth.

Coss

,
Noun.
[It.
cosa
.]
A thing (only in phrase below).
Rule of Coss
,
an old name for Algebra.
[It. regola di cosa rule of thing, the unknown quantity being called the cosa, or the thing.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Coss

COSS

,
Noun.
A Hindoo measure of one English mile and a quarter nearly.

Definition 2024


coss

coss

English

Alternative forms

Noun

coss (plural cosses or coss)

  1. (India) A measure of distance in India, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘In Flood Time’, In Black and White, Folio Society 2005, pp. 410-11:
      A full half koss from bank to bank is the stream now – you can see it under the stars – and there are ten feet of water therein.

See also


Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kussaz, whence also Old High German kus, Old Norse koss.

Noun

coss m

  1. kiss